Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 90

The sparrow spread out her wings once more, then drew them closely to her, and lay dead near the neighbouring family, the beautiful fresh roses.

Who acts: sparrow · What happens: spread out, draw, lay, neighbour · To what, where: wings, mother, neighbouring family

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 spread	compound:prt
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wings	nmod:poss
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 spread	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drew	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 drew	advmod
11	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drew	obj
13	closely	closely	ADV	_	11 drew	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
18	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 drew	conj
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lay	xcomp
20	near	near	ADP	_	23 family	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 family	det
22	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 family	amod
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 roses	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roses	det
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 roses	amod
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 roses	amod
28	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 family	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	past	the sparrow	mother's wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	draw	past		wings = wing	mother		then	closely property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Destination
3	lay	infinitive				the neighbouring family and the beautiful fresh roses		dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near family=Destination
4	neighbour	gerund							tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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